Finally, a Monograph on Bruno’s De immenso!
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Authors
Giovannozzi, Delfina
Publication Date
2021-11-11Journal Title
Early Science and Medicine
ISSN
1383-7427
Publisher
Brill
Volume
26
Issue
4
Pages
373-382
Type
Article
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Giovannozzi, D. (2021). Finally, a Monograph on Bruno’s De immenso!. Early Science and Medicine, 26 (4), 373-382. https://doi.org/10.1163/15733823-02630022
Abstract
Historians have often represented prayer as an instrumental response to illness. We argue instead that prayer, together with physic, was part of larger regimes to preserve health and prevent disease. We focus on early modern England, through the philo- sophical writings of the physician, Robert Fludd, and the medical records of the cler- gyman, Richard Napier. Fludd depicted health as a fortress and illness as an invasion by demons; the physician counsels the patient in maintaining and restoring moral and bodily order. Napier documented actual uses of prayer. As in Fludd’s trope, through prayer, Napier and his patients enacted their aspiration for health and their commit- ment to a Christian order in which medicine only worked if God so willed it. Prayer, like physic, was a key part of a regime that the wise practitioner aimed to provide for his patients, and that they expected to receive from him.
Sponsorship
Wellcome Trust (090619/Z/09/A)
Wellcome Trust (104083/Z/14/Z)
Embargo Lift Date
2024-11-01
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15733823-02630022
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/330174
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